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Enough

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It's Poetry Friday!  Today's event is hosted at Anastasia Suen's Blog . Enough sometimes it is enough to just sit listening to silence enough to notice the rain gently falling enough to wait for nothing in particular sometimes it is enough to just be © Cathy L. Mere

Slice of Life: Finding the Time to Write

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It's Tuesday!  Today is the Slice of Life Challenge.  I'm so grateful to the writers in this community for their continued support, inspiration, and friendship.  You can stop by Two Writing Teachers to join the conversation and discover links to the stories shared.   Recently I was speaking at a conference with a couple of my writing friends about our transitions into the world of digital writing.  As I talked to the group about the challenges writers face, one woman raised her hand.  She said what many of us have said before, "It's hard to find the time to write."  What caught my attention about this writer sitting in the audience wasn't that she had been diligently taking notes or the way she nodded as others shared or the fact that she mentioned time, it was the way she said it.  There was something about her tone.  Something about the way her shoulders slumped forward as she said it.  Something about the sadness in her eyes.  Something about the since